Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
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Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#2Unrelated, as an aside ...
I really am enjoying the developer Q&A interviews that console.dev is putting out.
They're very much like the "usesthis"[1] profiles but more in-depth and with more interesting details ...
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#3Thanks for the interview, I was pleasantly surprised to see how simple the network architecture is at rsync.
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#4Interesting interview - thanks John! Didn't know there was a UFS2 "phase" before ZFS... I wonder how much time those fscks took! :-)
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#5Interesting interview - thanks John! Didn't know there was a UFS2 "phase" before ZFS... I wonder how much time those fscks took! :-)
They took forever ... and then they bombed out due to lack of memory.
Not lack of physical memory, but lack of ability to address it as the UFS2 tools, like fsck, were not written to handle billions of inodes ...
We really can't thank Kirk M.[1] enough - he wrote custom patches to ufs and fsck just for our (dirty) filesystems and, as I mention in the article, eventually gave us the push to migrate to ZFS.
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#6Unrelated, as an aside ... I really am enjoying the developer Q&A interviews that console.dev is putting out. They're very much like the "usesthis"[1] profiles but more in-depth and with more interesting details ... [1] https://usesthis.com/
It was an interesting read!
I did a usesthis a little while ago. https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#7> "I have a early-2009 “octo” Mac Pro [...]"
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> OS: macOS
Does this make anyone else a bit uncomfortable?
I don't think MacOS is still receiving security updates on that hardware. I'm all for using old hardware for as long as it keeps working, but I would never browse the internet with a vulnerable OS on a vulnerable processor (spectre etc...)
Or am I missing something?
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#8Jealous of how well you seem to be able to keep to KISS as a principle.
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#9> "I have a early-2009 “octo” Mac Pro [...]" > > OS: macOS Does this make anyone else a bit uncomfortable? I don't think MacOS is still receiving security updates on that hardware. I'm all for using old hardware for as long as it keeps working, but I would never browse the internet with a vulnerable OS on a vulnerable processor (spectre etc...) Or am I missing something?
They're possibly something like a dosdude patcher or modified bootloader to run an OS like Catalina on it.
Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
#10> "I have a early-2009 “octo” Mac Pro [...]" > > OS: macOS Does this make anyone else a bit uncomfortable? I don't think MacOS is still receiving security updates on that hardware. I'm all for using old hardware for as long as it keeps working, but I would never browse the internet with a vulnerable OS on a vulnerable processor (spectre etc...) Or am I missing something?
"Or am I missing something?"
Yes, one minor thing ...
Although you are correct that Apple is not officially supporting the latest versions of OSX on that hardware, there is a trivially easy hack of the system that will allow you to load newer versions of OSX.
So, like many of you, I am not running Catalina but I am running an updated, patched version of OSX.